A gang has been operating for a couple of years hacking into the IRCTC website and buying Tatkal tickets even before you could log into the system.

The Tatkal booking under the Indian Railways was developed keeping in mind the need for quick tickets for the traveller at a very short notice which can be done online as well as offline on the railway counter.

This facility can however be availed only two days prior to the travel date. The booking which opens at 8.00 am in the morning, is considered by many as a tiresome process due to the enormous amount of people logging in to buy tickets. Many have complained, there have been times when the website would show the tickets available, but when you tried buying them, they would appear waitlisted.

In what has come as a shocking revelation, STF officials in Lucknow have arrested Salman, a proficient in computers and softwares, who has revealed that a gang in Uttar Pradesh has been hacking into the IRCTC website for a couple of years and buying Tatkal tickets even before the other users could log into the system.

The gang was using a software called Triple X developed by an Ahemdabad based IT professional Kuldeep Singh. By inserting the CD containing the software, one could generate 10 to 15 PNR numbers before 8 am every morning. The gang would launch the software and open the IRCTC link at 7.50 every morning to genrate PNR numbers for Tatkal booking which would eventually get confirmed as soon as the IRCTC website would open at its ususal time. The gang had been making quite some money, selling tickets at a commission ranging from Rs 500 to Rs 1000.

Two of Salman's associates, Satish Tiwari and Satiram Nishad have been nabbed from Basti district. STF deputy superintendent of police, S. Anand, said that a team of CBI officials from Mumbai would be reaching Lucknow soon to take Salman and his aides on transit remand for further investigation.

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